SPC topic

Here's my very first 100% composed (not injected) SPC hack.

My Home is the main town theme from Breath of Fire 2.

Next on my list is FF7's 'Costa Del Sol', I believe. XD

Very good job! I'm starting spc compostion tonight..I want to eventually compose FFVII tracks too for FFVI such as "Holding my thoughts in my heart" and "Interrupted by fireworks".

Which midi sequencer do you use to map the song? I suppose you map the song then write down the notes, their length and the length of the rests between them for each midi channel of the song?

Also, I have a bit of a hard time with music theory...What are the values of the notes with a question mark? Are they the black notes on a piano roll?

Code:

C              do
C# /Db         ?
D              re
D# /Eb         ?
E              mi
F              fa
F# /Gb         ?
G              so
G# /Ab         ?
A              la
Bb             ?
B              ti

While most people will say that Cakewalk SONAR is the best sequencer, I find Anvil Studio to be much more user friendly, and it shows the piano roll. So that's what I use.
Looking here at the musical reference guide provided by MQ in the tutorial, all those notes are accounted for there, I'm not sure about the whole do re mi fa so la ti thing, not sure what your looking at there, I just know that knowing that is not needed.

I will say now that composing music into the game requires a semi-advanced knowledge of musical notation, like what notes are what, octive changes, rests, dotted and tied notes, and all that. In other words, if one can not read music, one could not compose a song at all into the game, simple as that. But, it's not that bad really, because...

...nowadays one could just watch a Youtube video tut on musical notation, and use Google Images for a 'cheat sheet' that shows things like tied notes, 16'th and 32'nd notes, all that good stuff. This song I did was somewhat simple, considering it's 4/4 and doesn't have crazy shit going on like Battle on the Big Bridge that MQ did, I have no idea how he did that, he's crazy lol, in a good way. I've seen many insane looking midis, like Golbez' Theme which is basically 4 tracks of harmonizing minor chords, and pretty much every battle theme with fast drums. Drums are a real b*t*h.

But yeah, it's all there in the music hacking tut, it explains it better than I ever could, if you know musical notation, you can figure it out =). GL!